<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">On “Big Data,” the best critique yet I have read - in a piecemeal fashion, I admit, through interviews and such, I guess too lazy to read a full book but will get there eventually!🤠 - comes from the most read German Philosopher of our time (oh wait, he’s Korean!): <span style="color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Byung-Chul Han.</span><div class=""><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><font color="#121212" face="Guardian Text Egyptian Web, Georgia, serif" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-size: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><font color="#121212" face="Guardian Text Egyptian Web, Georgia, serif" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-size: 17px;" class="">Here are a couple of tidbits (you can leverage Google Translate to read the second, apparently he’s very popular in Spain!):</span></span></font></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><font color="#121212" face="Guardian Text Egyptian Web, Georgia, serif" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-size: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></span></span></font></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/dec/30/psychopolitics-neolberalism-new-technologies-byung-chul-han-review" class="">https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/dec/30/psychopolitics-neolberalism-new-technologies-byung-chul-han-review</a></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">The English translation of the title of this interview would be something like: “Dataism [i.e. Big Data, Analytics] is a pornographic form of knowledge that nullifies thought” - Google Translate has gotten really good!</div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><a href="https://elpais.com/cultura/2020/05/15/babelia/1589532672_574169.html?rel=lom&fbclid=IwAR1-NwmdrEvC554BqottrizJWXrGVBR5EM0PGZojfrsc6c5u5EyLNIUj40A" class="">https://elpais.com/cultura/2020/05/15/babelia/1589532672_574169.html?rel=lom&fbclid=IwAR1-NwmdrEvC554BqottrizJWXrGVBR5EM0PGZojfrsc6c5u5EyLNIUj40A</a></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 27, 2020, at 1:27 PM, Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes <<a href="mailto:alps6085@gmail.com" class="">alps6085@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Yeah, TMI😈<br class=""><br class="">Regards / Saludos / Grato<br class=""><br class="">Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes<br class="">Pronouns: He/Him/They/Them (equal preference)<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Aug 27, 2020, at 12:43 PM, Richard Brooks <<a href="mailto:rrb@g.clemson.edu" class="">rrb@g.clemson.edu</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">I like the concept "data is the new oil," as in:<br class="">-Exxon Valdez,and<br class="">-Climate change<br class=""><br class="">-- <br class="">Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable from any major commercial search engine. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: <a href="https://lists.ghserv.net/mailman/listinfo/lt" class="">https://lists.ghserv.net/mailman/listinfo/lt</a>. Unsubscribe, change to digest mode, or change password by emailing <a href="mailto:lt-owner@lists.liberationtech.org" class="">lt-owner@lists.liberationtech.org</a>.<br class=""></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>